Forbes bids farewell to Head Start

After 30 years with Head Start in Saratoga, which operates under Carbon County Child Development, Pat Forbes is retiring as director.

Forbes had an interesting journey before working at Head Start. While she always loved kids, childcare was not a career she planned on from the start.

“I was going to be a stewardess. I had a degree in Spanish and Sociology. In 1974, when I graduated from college the first time, there was a fuel embargo. Everything shut down in the United States, including Pan Am,” Forbes said. “So I went, ‘Oh! Divert!’”

After her initial plans changed, she used her secretarial...